1REP. LEWIS ON FERGUSON

“In a place like Ferguson – and it’s not just Ferguson, it may be Ferguson today, but tomorrow it could be someplace else – we have to get police officers, local elected officials to respect the dignity and the worth of every human being. It’s a shame and a disgrace that, in a city that is almost 70% African-American, to have only three African-American police officers. ”

–U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D., Ga.), a leader of the civil-rights movement, speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press” about the fallout from the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

2GOV. NIXON ON FERGUSON POLICE FORCE

“There are times when force is necessary, but we really felt that that — that that push at that time was a little aggressive, obviously, and those images were not what we were trying to get to.”

-Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on ABC’s “This Week,” speaking on what he described as the “overmilitarization” of police forces responding to protests last week in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

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3GOV. PERRY ON HIS INDICTMENT

“I very clearly, I very publicly, said that as long as that individual is going to be running that agency, I had lost confidence in her, the public had lost confidence in her, and I did what every governor has done for decades, which is make a decision on whether or not it was in the proper use of state money to go to that agency, and I vetoed it. … I stood up for the rule of law in the state of Texas, and if I had to do it again, I would make exactly the same decision.”

–Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Fox’s “Fox News Sunday,” discussing his indictment Friday on charges that he improperly vetoed $7.5 million for the Travis County Public Integrity Unit, which handles Texas political-corruption cases, after a Democratic prosecutor refused to resign following a drunken-driving arrest.

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4SEN. JOHNSON ON AUTHORIZING IRAQ STRIKES

“A couple weeks ago, President Obama did invite about eight or nine members of the Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees into the White House to speak with his counsel about a new authorization for use of military force, which I think is pretty long overdue. They’re finding out that trying to act militarily with the current authorizations in place is becoming pretty tenuous.”

–U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, (R., Wis.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, discussing the need for congressional authorization of military action in Iraq on “Fox News Sunday.”